eagna

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ecnae.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

eagna f (genitive singular eagna)

  1. wisdom, intelligence

Declension

Declension of eagna (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative eagna
vocative a eagna
genitive eagna
dative eagna
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an eagna
genitive na heagna
dative leis an eagna
don eagna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of eagna
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eagna n-eagna heagna not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “eagna”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ecna(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

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